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Rural area in upstate New York Rural areas are large and isolated areas of an open country with low population density. The terms "countryside" and "rural areas" are not synonyms: a "countryside" refers to rural areas that are open. Forest, wetlands, and other areas with a low population density are not a countryside. About 91 percent of the rural population[where?] now earn salaried incomes, often in urban areas. The 10 percent who still produce resources generate 20 percent of the worlds coal, copper, and oil; 10 percent of its wheat, 20 percent of its meat, and 50 percent of its corn. The efficiency of these farms is due in large part to the commercialization of the farming industry, and not single family operations.[1]
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1 United States o 1.1 Rural schools o 1.2 Rural health 2 United Kingdom o 2.1 Rural health 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links
An NHS patient is defined as rural if they live more than 5 km (3.1 mi) from either a doctor or a dispensing chemist. This is important for defining whether the patient is expected to collect their own medicines. While doctors' surgeries in towns will not have a dispensing chemist, instead expecting patients to use a high-street chemist to purchase their prescription medicines, in rural village surgeries, an NHS dispensary will be built into the same building).